Showing posts with label Space Hero Saturdays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Space Hero Saturdays. Show all posts

Saturday, July 25, 2026

Space Hero Saturdays OUTER SPACE "Third Planet"

Some stories are truly a "product of their time"...
...such as this Silver Age story that reflects the pacifist attitudes of the 18-30 year-olds of the era.
That's how the tale ended in the idealistic 1960s.
If they re-did it today, in the far more cynical 2020s, one (or both) commanders would have had a strike force ready to attack the second the other side disarmed.
This tale from the Charlton one-shot Outer Space (1968) was illustrated by Pat Boyette.
As to who wrote it, it could have been Boyette (who had already proven himself as a writer with several stories for Charlton's anthologies as well as a couple of issues of Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt), or Joe Gill, who co-created several pacifist heroes including Peacemaker with Boyette, and GunMaster with Dick Giordano!
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Saturday, June 27, 2026

Space Hero Saturdays BARNEY CARR "?????" Part 1

We've Re-Presented Two Published Tales of the Only Space Hero with a Normal Name...

...HERE and HERE!
Now, we're proudly presenting one of two unpublished tales of the stalwart Space Detective,,,but we have no idea of what it's about, since it was never lettered!

Apparently writer/artist Jerry Faisano didn't do the balloon/caption lettering on his strips, but since the series was cancelled after only two appearances, the remaining tales remained unlettered!
Can you figure out what's going on?

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Saturday, June 13, 2026

Space Hero Saturdays SPACE MOUSE "Master Mind" & "Believe It or Not"

This short-lived, but entertaining, series was uneven...
...with some stories, like this one from the back cover of Avon's Space Mouse #1 (1953) featuring the heroic character as a thief, obviously adapted from a different strip...
...and this one, from the inside cover of Avon's Space Mouse #3 (1953) showing him both in "hero mode" and cleverly breaking the "fourth wall"!
Writer/artist Frank Carin was an experienced pro who started as an animator the Fleischer Brothers and TerryToons, then moved over to comics in the early, writing and/or illustrating several hundred stories and covers for everybody from Timely/Atlas to Magazine Enterprises, to Nation-Wide, to Harvey, to, of course, Avon, and finally, to Gold Key!
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Saturday, May 30, 2026

Space Hero Saturdays PLANET COMICS "Fero: Interplanetary Detective and the Kidnapped Councilman's Daughter"

When we first met himFero battled scientific menaces on present-day (1940s) Earth.
As of his next appearance, without explanation, he's set in the far future!
This tale from Fiction House's Planet Comics #6 (1940) was written and illustrated by Al Bryant under the pen-name "Allison Brant".
The change in venue from present to future without any in-story explanation (not even a caption like "returing from the past to the 21st Century..." or some-such) seems odd considering the same writer/artist did this follow-up tale.
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Saturday, May 16, 2026

Space Hero Saturdays STEPHEN COLBERT'S TEK JANSEN "Horn Like Me! A Tek Jansen Case File"

We've Already Posted a Two-Part Tale of Tek Jansen HERE and HERE...
...from #1 (2007) of his Oni Press mini-series.
Now, to close out the issue, we re-present the final story from that book...
Written by Jim Massey and illustrated by Robbi Rodriguez, this "Case File" is more in the style of a hard-boiled gumshoe tale than a "straight" sci-fi adventure!
Tek Jansen will return, next week at...
Wednesday Worlds of Wonder!

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Saturday, May 9, 2026

Space Hero Saturdays CAPTAIN SCIENCE "Dark o' the Moon"

 ...in another outer space adventure!
Last time Gordon Dane destroyed a threat by humans (including Adolf Hitler) using alien tech and picked up a hot babe in the process!
Now he's dealing with aliens on the Moon!
PLUS, there's a cliffhanger involving the "Cat Men of Phoebus", which means the action goes interplanetary in the next story!
That catyclysmic conclusion will be presented...next Saturday!
The art on this never-reprinted story from Youthful's Captain Science #2 (1950)  is by Gustav Schrotter.
The writer is unknown.
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Saturday, May 2, 2026

Space Hero Saturdays FANTASTIC WORLDS "Ace of Space"

Not to be confused with Space Ace (who went through several different incarnations)...
...this guy is a Cold War fighter pilot-type transposed to a Star Wars setting!
Darn those aliens!
Sending robot "drones" to do their fighting instead of going man-against-lizard as God intended!
Though the scripter for this tale from Standard's Fantastic Worlds #7 (1952) is unknown, the artwork is by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito, with a couple of panels redrawn by Mike Sekowsky!
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